Trysts turn out to be robberies for 2 men

SALT LAKE CITY — Warning to Craigslist users: Beware offers of sex.

According to charges filed Tuesday in 3rd District Court, two men made arrangements on separate occasions to have sex in Utah with a woman they had met on the popular classified-advertising Web site, and both times, a man entered their vehicles and robbed them.

Shawlee Tuli Ama, 21, is charged with two counts of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery, both first-degree felonies.

Ama pretended to be a woman and arranged to meet with each man at a Taylorsville house, the charges state. When each man arrived, Ama in both cases got into the vehicle, showed a handgun and ordered the man to drive to an ATM, according to charges.

In the first case, the man proved his account balance was negative and Ama took his wallet and an iPod Touch worth $200, the charges state. The next day, prosecutors say, Ama tried the same stunt, but the driver swerved his car to hit a sheriff's patrol car.

— Lana Groves